Leviticus 24:6

And thou shalt set them in two rows,.... The twelve cakes:

six on a row; not by the side of each other, but six upon one another:

upon the pure table; the shewbread table, so called because…

The oil for the lamps of the tabernacle and the meal for the showbread were to be offerings from the Congregation, like the meal for the Pentecostal loaves, Lev 23:17. It appears that the…

Care is here taken, and orders are given, for the decent furnishing of the candlestick and table in God's house.

I. The lamps must always be kept burning. The law for this we had before, Exo 27:20,…

rows … row rather, as R.V. mg., piles. So the word -shewbread" should be rendered pile-breadin 1Ch 9:32; 1Ch 23:29; Neh 10:33.

the pure table i.e. overlaid with pure gold (Exo 25:24). For a…